Come Eat Mr. Bunny Rabbit

After Wen Ming got off work, he went to the carport to get his bike, but circled around and discovered his bike had disappeared.

It was always fine when he parked his bike in the nursery, how could it be gone just like that. Wen Ming walked out the carport and went to the security office to ask if someone had seen his bike.

The guard sitting at the security office shook his head at Wen Ming, and asked, “It shouldn’t be. Could it be that a teacher accidentally took the wrong one?”

When the security guard did not hear Wen Ming’s reply, they lifted their head up to look, and saw Mr. xiao’Wen was currently angry and helplessly looking out the gates.

Wen Ming said to him, “Thank you, no need anymore. I found it.”

Outside the main gates of the nursery, Jiang Rui who was riding a bike had one leg on the ground, parked the bike at the small gap left by the electronic gates, and was calmly waited there for Wen Ming to come out.

The other young security guard in the security office asked, “Mr. xiao’Wen, did your little brother come pick you up?”

He was that security guard that let Jiang Rui through the gates last time. He confirmed this matter with the teacher himself today, otherwise, he would always feel uneasy.

When Wen Ming heard this question, he first paused, then sadly answered, “Yes.”

It was the little brother that the heavens had sent to collect a debt from him.

He did not given thought on what to do afterwards.

Wen Ming had never been as disorderly as this. Right now, he was only left with one thought, he had to go back and tidy up, tidy up.

[Tidy] the shortcomings, solutions, remedial measures. His state right now couldn’t think too much. Or perhaps, he actually had the thought of giving up.

Wen Ming said his goodbyes with the security, and walked out the gates of the nursery.

“It’s the first time I’ve seen Mr. xiao’Wen this tired.”

Once the security guard behind him saw he left, he then closed the window.

Wen Ming walked by himself, while Jiang Rui rode his bike circling around him the entire way.

His bike was a very modest and practical model, completely out of place with Jiang Rui from head to toe. Wen Ming continued walking until there was a good distance from the nursery, then he stopped.

He first sighed.

“The bike, give it back to me.”

The big and tall Jiang Rui tilted his head in front of him, slowly first looked at Wen Ming’s expression, then answered, “Okay.”

He did not come down from the bike, but instead intentionally rode a small distance, and directly sent the seat at the back to the front of Wen Ming.

It meant that he wanted Wen Ming to get on.

Jiang Rui who was in the front turned back to stare at him, and smiled at Wen Ming, “Let’s go, I’ll bring you home.”

Without even needing to think, he knew it was not Wen Ming’s home.

Wen Ming closed his eyes. The him right now really was not in the mood to play this kind of game with Jiang Rui anymore. After he lifted his head again, he did not even look at Jiang Rui, and left, winding around both bike and person altogether.

Too tormenting.

Is it okay if he doesn’t want his bike back?

Hasn’t it always been like this? Whatever Jiang Rui wanted to do, he would do, he could completely not need to consider others’ feelings. However, Wen Ming had always held it in too.

He believed that Jiang Rui would change in the future more than Jiang Rui himself. But Jiang Rui did not care about these at all, and did not care for himself.

Wen Ming walked in gloom at the front, while in the back, slowly followed with a series of tire sounds.

Jiang Rui felt it was strange. The little Mr. Strawberry today was a hard and stiff frozen strawberry just taken out of the fridge.

How long has it been since he did not come back with him? Jiang Rui thought in discontent.

He rode a bit faster, went shoulder-to-shoulder with Wen Ming, then held the handlebar with one hand, while the other reached out, about to touch that expressionless face of his, as though using body warmth could eternally melt ice.

Wen Ming dodged it.

His insides were burning with fire.

Once this fellow was by his side, his hands would not stop- if not touching here, it was to poke him there. Did Jiang Rui really not understand what he did in the afternoon?

Jiang Rui was unhappy with this too.

If Wen Ming didn’t let him touch, Jiang Rui’s going to touch until he lets him.

Jiang Rui went one step ahead of Wen Ming, rushed in front of him, then blocked the path using the bike, stopping Wen Ming. If Wen Ming walked again, he would block again.

Wen Ming patiently called him, “Go away.”

Jiang Rui did not the look of him saying things right now. The more Wen Ming was like this, the more he would not go away.

He wanted to see what Wen Ming could do by himself.

Wen Ming was still standing in the same spot. He certainly did not know what he should do anymore in regards to Jiang Rui, no matter if it was in the present or the future.

Who knew how long the standoff went on for. Perhaps seeing Wen Ming’s expression was not right, Jiang Rui finally unhappily said, “Then let’s go to your home. Your home is fine, right?”

If it was another person, he could not possibly lower his head down like this.

Wen Ming felt a wave of powerlessness.

He could not understand, how could this person still act like it was nothing.

It was a deep powerlessness that was like being sunk in a mire. Communication was useless, in this period of time, no matter how much more he tried to move or reason, Jiang Rui seemed to not listen at all; Sometimes, he would think to the point he reached a dead end, and thought if the soft approach did not work, then let’s go on the hard route, but it was still a dead end.

What Wen Ming should do, what he shouldn’t do, was all done.

Who can tell him what else he can do.

On the other side, Jiang Rui saw Wen Ming lower his head again and not say anything for a long time. He was actually able to come to a conclusion on his own, “You’re tired.”

Wen Ming laughed at these words out of anger.

“Do you really not know what you did in the afternoon?”

Jiang Rui did not understand.

Wen Ming found it hard to believe, “In the afternoon!…… You did that kind of thing, do you not feel like it’s related? How could you randomly kiss others as you please? Do you know that is against the law?”

Not only that, it was even Mr. xiao’Wen’s first kiss in his twenty or so years.

That last line, he did not say out loud, that was something for himself to hear. Under the attack of his anger, it almost cane out, but in the end, it was taken back in time. His lips faintly moved a bit.

“First kiss?” Jiang Rui admitted to it, “Is that very important? Mine’s got eaten by you too.”

Wen Ming burst in rage, “Scram!”

Go back and eat yourself!

Right now, he could not get close to Jiang Rui. Jiang Rui would only bring him boundless senses of defeat, and pull him into an even deeper abyss.

He looked at Jiang Rui’s figure in front of him, like looking at a tall wall in front of him that he could not pass through. The insignificant people at the bottom of the wall would pitifully feel around, and not know the final end was destined to be overwhelmed by this heavy wall.

He even started doubting if the decision he made in the beginning was right or not.

Wen Ming powerlessly asked him, “Just what is it that you want to do?”

Jiang Rui strongly asserted his views more than him, “Go back home.”

Wen Ming wearily pressed his eyebrows.

It was like a certain instance an electrical pathway was joined correctly. His muddled brain strangely flashed by with a seemingly meaningless keyword.

The frequent vocabulary that had always come out of Jiang Rui’s mouth these two days. He decided to treat the dead rabbit like one did with one alive[1].

Keyword: Tired.

“Tired.” Wen Ming said.

The voice was a bit light, and after he finished speaking, he observed Jiang Rui’s expression.

Jiang Rui still had a grumpy face. And after listening, his facial coloured turned even more sunken.

In this situation right here and now, if it was another person, they would probably not find it, but in the eyes of Wen Ming who was most familiar with Jiang Rui, he read the three words, there is hope, in an instant.

It was effective. The big fellow in front of him seemed to be fixed by this word, and did not move for the time being.

“I am tired.” He said to Jiang Rui.

Jiang Rui knitted his eyebrows. It wasn’t from being angry as usual, but a gloomy wrinkle.

Tired again. But this would make sense. The abnormal attitude little Mr. Strawberry had towards him today was because he was tired.

Rabbits were all very weak. Jiang Rui opened his mouth with some difficulty, “Then I’ll go back with you.”

After he wakes up, he would not be like this, and he would even turn into a rabbit for him to pet.

At that time, if he pets him bald, it won’t be too much, right?

There it is. It’s this. Wen Ming could already feel the radiance of hope illuminating on his face. He found it, the password to make Jiang Rui obedient.

“No, I already said, I’m very tired, you can’t follow me.”

“……” As expected, Jiang Rui’s face was all depressed, but he couldn’t say anything to refute it.

He had to admit, Jiang Rui certainly had no way with a Wen Ming who would be tired. Right now the one at a loss was reversed.

Jiang Rui still wanted to say something, “Then……”

Wen Ming hurriedly relentlessly added to the fire, “If rabbits get too tired, they will die.”

Jiang Rui who heard this was clearly not very happy, “If wolves aren’t happy, they would die too.”

Wen Ming was speechless. He almost forgot this person had a nursery diploma.

However, matters finally had a turn to them- the opportunity would only be left to the prepared strawberry, so Wen Ming hurriedly grasped at this sliver of a chance, and seized the opportunity to make his request:

“I need to properly rest this weekend, I have to continuously rest for two days and two nights, so you can’t come find me.”

“Next week, it’s my turn to supervise the afternoon break, so you can’t come to the nursery school either.”

Jiang Rui was instantly discontent, “Tch.”

Wen Ming thought, it seemed like he had been too elated. He took one step back, “Um, let’s see how you do, and then we’ll talk about it later. However, you still can’t come find me on the weekend.”

Jiang Rui unwillingly gave a “Hmph.”

But with previous experience, this time, Wen Ming did not forget to ask again uneasily, “Did you really listen to my words this time?”

The unhappy Jiang Rui thus maintained the appearance of watching Wen Ming, and at the same time, his head rose up with a pair of very big triangular wolf ears.

Before, when Wen Ming wanted him to listen, he had him do this.

Wen Ming said, “Putting them out is no use, you have to get the words in.”

Jiang Rui forced himself, “Oh.”

In the end, Wen Ming still allowed him to follow him to the bottom of the small district, and then he brought his bike inside.

Jiang Rui could only gloomily watch his leaving figure from behind.

This was unfair.

In the time he didn’t see me, he wouldn’t be unhappy, but I won’t be well off.

……

Wen Ming: Three words made the guy give me a two day vacation.

By depending on these words, Wen Ming went by two days of a peaceful weekend.

In the tranquil days without Jiang Rui, the air was more cleaner than usual. Wen Ming’s hands held a cup of tea, was in a calm mood, and felt that ordinary was more like it.

That wolf was the branch that grew sideways in Wen Ming’s routine peaceful life.

Jiang Rui seemed to always create wave after wave of new troubles for him. And each wave of trouble could make Wen Ming get thrown off his feet each time.

…… It could already be considered a kind of protruding ability. He was not the same as any of the people Wen Ming saw up to today, and was a different type of person from Wen Ming.

Just when Wen Ming was still worrying whether there would be no way to get a certificate of no criminal record if he wanted to do a civil servant exam after getting a record for him, the trajectory of Jiang Rui’s life was a complete, capital and bolded, doing things as I please.

Let’s put it this way. From Wen Ming here, even if he took tens of thousands of steps back, according to the standards he had for a blind dating partner, Jiang Rui would be eliminated on the first step.

And now that it was mentioned, his fate-like blind date, Lu Xiao.

This reminded Wen Ming, even with a evil wolf in the front, the progress bar of his love cannot fall behind.

Not only can it not fall behind, he had to quicken it up. Either you don’t do it, or follow through with it to the end- that night, Wen Ming took a step of courage, and took the initiative to invite Lu Xiao. The two went out to eat dinner together.

Although Wen Ming had to get up early to go to work tomorrow, after finishing the meal, the two were not in a hurry to go back, and slowly took a stroll back home.

After tonight’s meal, Wen Ming confirmed it even more that Lu Xiao was his ideal blind dating partner, no doubt. He was tall, had straight facial features, would take care of others, understood people, and in reality, was not bad in other areas too, his profession was a teacher……

Wen Ming drew checkmarks on each item inside, and the little guy inside of him could not be any more content, constantly nodding its head.

Very suitable. Look at them, just look, this is the look that his future partner should have.

Wait. That’s not right. Is this time to be thinking of these things? At present, Wen Ming still had a very important matter.

Wen Ming then realized, with the situation now, the two of them were almost about to reach his small district. According to the direction of others’ stories, should he, invite Lu Xiao up to drink tea?

Drink tea. Hah. Was it that exciting?

When his thoughts reached here, his heartbeat quickened up a bit.

Wen Ming never had this kind of experience either. Then what should he do next, should he first speak or should Lu Xiao?

In any case, he first can’t mess up. Wen Ming calmed his emotions, and just as he wanted to say something to liven up the atmosphere, he felt that Lu Xiao who was beside him seemed to slow down in his steps.

He suspiciously looked ahead. He saw that at the corner of the road to the front, stood a big black figure.

Lu Xiao felt that the person did not have good intentions. Wen Ming also walked slower and slower with Lu Xiao, and in the end, the two people just stopped there.

Due to the light, even with a street apart, they could not see that person’s face. Lu Xiao did not understand what was happening, but Wen Ming could recognize them with one look, and his face gradually turned stiff.

Childrens’ stories did not lie to people, as expected- if one wanted to return with a prince in hand, they had to first defeat the evil wolf.

Wen Ming turned his head to speak with Lu Xiao, “It’s okay, the one in front is one of my friends, he…… should have something he’s looking for me for. You can just drop me off here, you should first go back to rest for today. I’ll contact you in a bit when I get home.”

The two people stood in the same spot to speak, and did not leave for the time being. The person in front instead headed to this side in quick big steps, and it was very obvious their target was them.

Lu Xiao did not immediately leave, and looked at Wen Ming in concern, “But you…… Oh god!……”

Even with mental preparation, the darkened face of Jiang Rui who suddenly appeared scared him into a jump.

Was that a hallucination? Just before, Wen Ming’s ears caught some information. Did Lu Xiao say “oh god”, or “ooh god”.

Ooh? Did he say ooh just now?

At that moment, Lu Xiao actually had a misconception, Jiang Rui was going to hit him in the next second. It was Wen Ming beside him who blocked Jiang Rui, and angrily shouted at him, “What are you doing!”

Lu Xiao also froze, “Jiang Rui?!”

At this point, Wen Ming had no way of explaining things clearly at all.

“It’s him. Um……” Wen Ming apologetically looked at Lu Xiao, “I’ll explain it to you later. You should go back first. Thank you for today.”

Lu Xiao was hesitant, “This……”

“It’s okay, me and Jiang Rui know each other from before, he was only waiting for me.”

Thankfully, Lu Xiao was an understanding person, Wen Ming in the end, managed to persuade him to go back.

You brat ruined my good thing again. Jiang, Rui!——

Wen Ming slowly turned around with anger.

Jiang Rui unhappily questioned him right in the face, “You’re giving a green hat for me to wear[2]?”

Wen Ming turned outraged.

“I’m! Giving you!” He punched Jiang Rui’s arm for every beat, “ A green hat! To wear! My ass!”

He was a professional, in typical circumstances, he would not turn to corporal punishment, other than if he truly could not take it.

He did not even question why Jiang Rui would appear at the downstairs of his home in the middle of the night yet! Where did this person get a face to ask him!

[1] 死兔当活兔医- the original expression uses horses instead of rabbits. To bear the final sliver of hope despite fully knowing it was a lost cause.

[2] AKA are you cheating on me.